Useful links and downloads

[melliska]

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ALL THE LINKS THAT ARE FIT TO PRINT

1. FREE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE
AVG 8.5 Free Edition (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1)


Avast Antivirus (http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html)


Avira AntiVir (http://www.free-av.com/)


Microsoft Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/)


2. FREE ONLINE VIRUS SCAN
You will need to use Internet Explorer and ActiveX needs to be enabled.

Trend Micro Housecall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/)
Eset Online Scan (http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/)3. FREE ONLINE TROJANSCAN
Windows Security (http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/)4. TEST YOUR CONNECTION SPEED
SpeedTest (http://www.speedtest.net/)5. FREE ANTI SPYWARE PROGRAMS
SUPERAntiSpyware (http://www.superantispyware.com/)


Ad-Aware (http://www.download.com/3000-2094-10045910.html)
Spybot Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/)
Windows Defender (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/default.mspx)6. PASSWORD MANAGER AND FORM FILLER
RoboForm (http://www.roboform.com/)7. FLY AROUND THE WORLD
Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/)8. FREE WEB BROWSERS FOR SAFER SURFING
Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/)
FireFox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/)
Opera (http://www.opera.com/)9. FREE BIDIRECTIONAL SOFTWARE FIREWALL
Comodo (http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/)


Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall (http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm)
10. USE HIJACK THIS FOR BROWSER HIJACKING/TOOL OF LAST RESORT
HijackThis (http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html)11. INTERNET TRAFFIC REPORT
Internet Traffic Report (http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm)12. The BELARC ADVISOR builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.
Belarc Advisor (http://www.belarc.com/End-User_Products.html)PS...Hi everybody!!! *hugs* Melissa

Life is a lesson you learn when you're through.

[jimnms]

For testing bandwidth, I find this tool more acurate:

http://speedtest.dslreports.com

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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

[rdf]

thanks melly, you're the best :-)

[PN]

Free Antivirus for your Mac (not sure you need one)

iAntivirus (http://www.iantivirus.com/)

The Ultimate Boot CD For Windows

Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)

Free Online Spyware/Virus Scanner

1. OneCare Live PC Safety Scan (http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm)

2. To remove Malware use Malwarebytes (http://www.malwarebytes.org/). Run the computer in safe mode.

NirSoft (http://www.nirsoft.net/) provides a unique collection of System and Desktop utilities.

Sysinternals AutoRuns (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/Autoruns.mspx) can be used as an alternative to MSConfig.

Not all of us can afford to buy important apps with hefty price tags even if the rest of the world can. So why not try the least expensive alternatives – free ones?

Adobe Photoshop – Alternative: The GIMP – http://gimp.org/

MS Office – Alternative: ABI WORD – http://www.abisource.com/

OpenOffice - for Windows and Mac - http://download.openoffice.org/

Adobe Illustrator – Alternative: KARBON14 – http://koffice.org/

VMware or Parallels - Alternative: Sun VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/

Norton Ghost or Acronis TruImage - Alternative: Runtime Drive Image XML - http://runtime.org/

For more Alternatives to software: - Alternativeto (http://alternativeto.net/)

www.usc87.blogspot.com

[corlorde]

This is a great start page. Has lots of info, the dictionary-google-you name it.

Be seeing you,

~Corey

REFDESK (http://www.refdesk.com/)

Heaven doesn't want me, and hell's afraid I'll take over

[joyt]

TechSupportGuy Forums (http://forums.techguy.org/)

really helpful people who actually enjoy solving pc problems! http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

joy
"Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement."
~ Donald A. Laird

[bigbob]

Great site for drivers: http://www.driverguide.com/

[Wise Young]

bigbob, neat sites. I just tested the speed of my connection... 2.7 Mbytes/second (peak) and it took 3.1 seconds to download a 1 Mb file (continuous). Not too shabby considering that it is through an old Apple Airport connected to a cable network. Wise.

[bigbob]

Wise, I cannot take credit for the connection speed link. It was posted by melliska for PN.But while I am posting if anyone goes to www.driverguide.com (http://www.driverguide.com) the login is: drivers and the password is all.

[tvot]

I got some excellent programs here and they come without adware. CDBurnerXPpro worked better than Nero.
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/freeware.html

[Yaw]

excellent bandwidth test site here and a host of other computer tests

you can also automatically optimize your computer for maximum speed

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/default.asp

[jimnms]

Free image hosting site:

http://www.imageshack.us/

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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

[Lizbv]

http://www.promaster.com/products/productpage.asp?sm=sm2_Protectors&product=1626

needed a case protector to put memory sticks/duo's in. hope this might help you too! Found this product at a local camera shop. here's mine in picture below:

"I guess pain is a great motivator."- Yanni
Eine Welf, Ein Volk

[PN]

Access your PC from anywhere.

LogMeIn (https://secure.logmein.com/go.asp?page=home)

Cobian Backup is free and it can even make incremental backups of your data.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

MoveOnBoot allows you to copy, move or delete files on the next system boot. This can come handy if you need to replace or delete files that are locked by other applications, loaded into memory or cannot be changed until next system boot.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/emcomob.html

http://usc87.blogspot.com/

[Bob]

Great site for Virus Vemoval Tools:
http://www.symantec.com.au/avcenter/tools.list.html

[Hunker]

I cant believe nobody has mentioned openoffice! Just like Microsoft Office, except it is totally free (has all the program equivalents of powerpoint, word, excel etc). It is also compatible with Microsoft Office aswell, which is really useful when sending documents to other people who dont have OpenOffice.

http://www.openoffice.org/
I use it a lot and find it friendly. For example I can use its writer and email it and it turns to "word"